Ask HN: How many browser tabs you have open?

Yup. Personally I find having large numbers of browser tabs open as well as large numbers of application windows destroys my ability to do tasks.

I have heard the most amazing excuses from people as to why they don't use history despite the fact that it solves so many problems. I am never afraid to close a window because i won't be able to find it later.

Start typing in the address bar and choose "switch to tab" if there's a match, and also scroll through the drop down list. Sometimes I "send to start" or end.

Well first I am on Safari. Which doesn't do much in terms of multi Tab navigation like Firefox and Chrome. Even current Tabs are not showed up properly in your address bar while typing. Safari wont recognise you have the same tab unless the tab is fully loaded. Which is not the case if you restart your browser from previous sessions. On Firefox and Chrome you have a list of tab to navigate them or search through it. On Safari you have Tab Overview, even though in Safari 15 they have finally fixed not to load every single Tab in Tab Overview which causes hundreds of GB of paging if you have lots of tabs. They still load non-idle tab, and again lots of paging. ( In worst case if you have hundreds to thousands of tab it could kill your SSD with Data Write )

Most of my current session stays on the right side of Tabs. I mostly finish reading all the current news and go back to do Garbage Collection of Tabs on my left. So they are more like Reading List.